How To Draw Girls Using

The Professional Tutorial Approach

How to draw
girls can be a lot of fun as they appear in all shapes and sizes; tall and
short, fat and thin (with a variety of sizes in-between.) Old and young with
the majority in the middle; some are pretty and some of them ugly; some with
smooth baby-like skin and others with sagging flesh and wrinkles. So it’s a question of "What type of girls do you want to draw?"

The easiest
place to start would be learning how to
draw cartoon girls of all shapes and sizes, with overstated characteristics
that cartoon people love.

This means
you can exaggerate to your heart's content whereas if you are drawing a serious
portrait and aiming for a good likeness, you’ll need to brush up on your human
(head) anatomy.

As for any
portrait sitter who insists on his or her portrait painting, must be
flattering, "You must take out the wrinkles and make me look ten years
younger." If you are confronted with the situation, you’ll have to be quite a
master portrait painter of notoriety. So
let’s stick with cartoon styles
which can be fun to draw and they are easy to do!

Drawing the
figure in "how to draw girls" is an
entirely different kettle of fish and the information and "How-to" drawings would take up more than one page on this site so
it will have to fit in on a new page about "Girls Figures" or "Figure
Drawing" or even a full e-book just to get the basics in so you fully
understand and can USE the data
effectively. If you put years of practice in studying the human forms you
will surely reach the top of the pinnacle.

So let's start off with the head
first – cartoon style; take note of these bulleted lists so they become second
nature to you.

Face Shapes: (Front view) oval, round,
heart shape, square. There is a HUGE
variety of face shapes but don’t sweat it if it is nothing like what you had
expected. Start drawing from the widest
part of the face which can be the cheek bones or the lower jaw (or it can be a
mop of hair) then draw the opposite
outline of the face or hair (which should be symmetrical.)

Nose Shapes: There are some basic nose
shapes which all noses can fit into. Broad and wide, thin and skinny, lopsided,
flaring nostrils, hooked, pointed, check out your friends’ noses and see the
variety, yeah, be observant! There is an unlimited number of nose shapes but
they'll all fit into a few specific categories: Here are some examples:

Eyes and Eyebrow Shapes: Eyes are not difficult to draw and they are usually the most
expressive feature where you can tell a lot about a person. We’ll go into this
in more depth later. Eyebrows are also expressive and they can be thick or
thin, bushy or bald, one pencil line or a series of lines. They can be slanted
upward or downwards: See variety below:

Drawing Mouths: Mouths and their shapes
can also tell you a lot about a person. An upward curve is a smile and the
downward one can be sad or unhappy or angry or whatever emotion you want to
create. Halfway curving up and halfway down can be a sneer. When we get going,
we'll try and get some of these following mouth expressions to give you plenty
of scope; amused, angry, contempt, curious, despair, humiliation, moronic
smile, suffering, worry and about 50 or so other expressions. See examples of mouths below.

Drawing Hair: There are not as many hair styles for
girls as there are for men. A man's hair can become a cartoon girl's hairdo
just by brushing it in all directions. You know that men like to cover their
bald patches with hair only growing on the side. Girls don't do this but you
can use this idea for girl's hair styles.
See below:

The Drawing-Pencil-Sketches website is very well put-together.
The pencil sketch at the top of the
page catches your eye right away and makes you interested in reading and learning more about what it is about and is very well organized and easy
to find your way around the site.

It makes you feel confident that you really could learn to draw and sketch.
Drawing pencil sketches is very detailed and
provides great advice on learning how to draw just about anything!.